Research and Impact Manager
| Posting date: | 29 April 2025 |
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| Salary: | £52,575.15 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 27 May 2025 |
| Location: | West Yorkshire, LS1 2RP |
| Company: | Skills For Care |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | ORG1882-CY1300214LeeRAIM |
Summary
Job Title: Research and Impact Manager
Hours: Full Time, 36 hours per week
Job Status: Permanent and fixed-term opportunities available
Location: Home based with some expectation of travel
Salary: £52,575.15
Closing Date: 11th May 2025
Interview Date(s): 19th-20th May 2025
Skills for Care the strategic workforce development and planning body for adult social care (ASC) in England. We work with employers, Government and partners to ensure social care has the right people, skills and support required to deliver the highest quality care and support now and in the future.
Find out more by taking a look at www.skillsforcare.org.uk.
Skills for Care is pursuing an ambitious new corporate strategy for 2025–2030, to drive positive change across the adult social care workforce in support of the Workforce Strategy for Adult Social Care in England. We’re looking for an experienced research and impact professional to capture the effectiveness and impact of our work and ensure that everything we do is evidence-led.
The role will sit within our Research and Impact Team, which provides research and evaluation expertise and delivers key insights across our areas of work, helping us to design and deliver effective support to the sector and understand our impact. This role will play a central role in taking forwards our impact and evaluation frameworks.
The successful candidate will be a champion for evidence-led working, committed to generating high quality, compelling research and evaluation to underpin our products and services, and facilitate a culture of innovation and learning.
Along with strong quantitative and qualitative research and evaluation skills, you’ll need to be a skilled and confident collaborator, able to work across internal teams and with funders and partners to drive forward our research agenda and evaluation activities.
If you’re an experienced research and impact manager with a passion for driving forward evidence-led change in public services we’d love to hear from you. This is your chance to help shape Skills for Care’s future and make a real impact for the social care sector.
The post is home-based, with occasional travel and flexible working available.
If you are interested in this role, please access the full job description for further information and we look forward to receiving your application.
At Skills for Care, we are committed to creating a culture of Belonging, where all of our People are able to contribute to their full potential. All our People are expected to contribute towards the achievement of our aspirations for equality, equity, diversity and inclusion. To find out more please check our website.
At Skills for Care, we want our People to be representative of the society we support, this includes all equality characteristics such as age, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief. This lived experience from a diverse group of people helps us with all the work that we do and ultimately supports the social care sector to provide the best quality care. We encourage applications from, but not limited to, people from minoritised ethnic backgrounds, people who identify as LGBTQ+ and people with disabilities.
Candidates will always be selected based on experience and potential.
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Information about reasonable adjustments
We want all applicants to be able to fully participate in our selection processes. We welcome requests for adjustments to our recruitment and selection processes from applicants with disabilities, impairments, or health conditions, and will always consider support available in the recruitment process.
Please contact our People Team via email (recruitment@skillsforcare.org.uk) to discuss any adjustments that you may need.
Hours: Full Time, 36 hours per week
Job Status: Permanent and fixed-term opportunities available
Location: Home based with some expectation of travel
Salary: £52,575.15
Closing Date: 11th May 2025
Interview Date(s): 19th-20th May 2025
Skills for Care the strategic workforce development and planning body for adult social care (ASC) in England. We work with employers, Government and partners to ensure social care has the right people, skills and support required to deliver the highest quality care and support now and in the future.
Find out more by taking a look at www.skillsforcare.org.uk.
Skills for Care is pursuing an ambitious new corporate strategy for 2025–2030, to drive positive change across the adult social care workforce in support of the Workforce Strategy for Adult Social Care in England. We’re looking for an experienced research and impact professional to capture the effectiveness and impact of our work and ensure that everything we do is evidence-led.
The role will sit within our Research and Impact Team, which provides research and evaluation expertise and delivers key insights across our areas of work, helping us to design and deliver effective support to the sector and understand our impact. This role will play a central role in taking forwards our impact and evaluation frameworks.
The successful candidate will be a champion for evidence-led working, committed to generating high quality, compelling research and evaluation to underpin our products and services, and facilitate a culture of innovation and learning.
Along with strong quantitative and qualitative research and evaluation skills, you’ll need to be a skilled and confident collaborator, able to work across internal teams and with funders and partners to drive forward our research agenda and evaluation activities.
If you’re an experienced research and impact manager with a passion for driving forward evidence-led change in public services we’d love to hear from you. This is your chance to help shape Skills for Care’s future and make a real impact for the social care sector.
The post is home-based, with occasional travel and flexible working available.
If you are interested in this role, please access the full job description for further information and we look forward to receiving your application.
At Skills for Care, we are committed to creating a culture of Belonging, where all of our People are able to contribute to their full potential. All our People are expected to contribute towards the achievement of our aspirations for equality, equity, diversity and inclusion. To find out more please check our website.
At Skills for Care, we want our People to be representative of the society we support, this includes all equality characteristics such as age, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief. This lived experience from a diverse group of people helps us with all the work that we do and ultimately supports the social care sector to provide the best quality care. We encourage applications from, but not limited to, people from minoritised ethnic backgrounds, people who identify as LGBTQ+ and people with disabilities.
Candidates will always be selected based on experience and potential.
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Information about reasonable adjustments
We want all applicants to be able to fully participate in our selection processes. We welcome requests for adjustments to our recruitment and selection processes from applicants with disabilities, impairments, or health conditions, and will always consider support available in the recruitment process.
Please contact our People Team via email (recruitment@skillsforcare.org.uk) to discuss any adjustments that you may need.